Former Alabama offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio is in line to see his first NFL action when the Buffalo Bills host the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Kouandjio is among the Bills' 46 game-day active players for the first time in his career. After being selected in the second round of the NFL Draft in May, Kouandjio had been one of Buffalo's seven inactive players for every game in the first half of the season.

"I'm looking forward to it," Kouandjio told reporters last week about the prospect of playing on Sunday. "If they need me, I'm ready to go."

About a month ago, Kouandjio began working at guard, and he might play there on Sunday against the Chiefs. Even though Buffalo would improve to 6-3 for the first time since 1999 by beating Kansas City, the Bills' offensive line has been a sore spot for the team. While Buffalo likes its tackle set of Cordy Glenn and rookie Seantrel Henderson, the guard play has not satisfied the coaching staff to the same degree.

Buffalo has used Erik Pears, who lost the right tackle job to Henderson in training camp, and rookie Cyril Richardson at the guard spots, with Kraig Urbik filling in. Richardson's father died last week and, with the funeral on Friday, he did not practice during the week. Richardson is inactive for Sunday's game.

"We've been working on that for a while," Buffalo coach Doug Marrone said at a press conference last week about Kouandjio learning to play guard, "and I like a lot of the things that I see. We're still talking about the substitution stuff going into Sunday's game with how we want to do that with him playing guard."

Kouandjio said he's still playing tackle, too, but got to work with the Bills' first unit at right guard coming off Buffalo's bye week.

"I got a lot of tackle reps with the scout team," Kouandjio said, "and then I got a lot of guard reps with the starting team. A combination of the two."

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Kouandjio said his lack of playing time had been frustrating, until he stepped back and got a better perspective on his situation.

"(Getting frustrated) doesn't really help," Kouandjio said. "I just lost track of the love of the sport. I just love this, and I'm having fun. I'm out there running around, and that's where my success comes from. I'm just doing what I was bred to do."

The Chiefs, who also have a 5-3 record, and Bills kick off at noon CST Sunday.